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<td class="v">3:1</td>
<td>Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.</td>
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<td class="v">3:2</td>
<td>So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.</td>
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<td class="v">3:3</td>
<td>And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.</td>
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<td class="v">3:4</td>
<td>And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.</td>
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<td class="v">3:5</td>
<td>For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;</td>
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<td class="v">3:6</td>
<td>Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.</td>
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<td class="v">3:7</td>
<td>But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.</td>
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<td class="v">3:8</td>
<td>Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.</td>
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<td class="v">3:9</td>
<td>As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.</td>
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<td class="v">3:10</td>
<td>Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.</td>
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<td class="v">3:11</td>
<td>And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.</td>
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<td class="v">3:12</td>
<td>Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.</td>
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<td class="v">3:13</td>
<td>I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.</td>
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<td class="v">3:14</td>
<td>So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.</td>
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<td class="v">3:15</td>
<td>Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.</td>
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<td class="v">3:16</td>
<td>And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">3:17</td>
<td>Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.</td>
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<td class="v">3:18</td>
<td>When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.</td>
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<td class="v">3:19</td>
<td>Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.</td>
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<td class="v">3:20</td>
<td>Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.</td>
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<td class="v">3:21</td>
<td>Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.</td>
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<td class="v">3:22</td>
<td>And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.</td>
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<td class="v">3:23</td>
<td>Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.</td>
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<td class="v">3:24</td>
<td>Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.</td>
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<td class="v">3:25</td>
<td>But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:</td>
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<td class="v">3:26</td>
<td>And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.</td>
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<td class="v">3:27</td>
<td>But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.</td>
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